This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!